Mr. and Mrs. Pickle

Introducing Mr and Mrs Pickle and little dill

Meet Ma Pickle:

Meet Pa Pickle:

Meet little Dill:

They are here to wish you

a very Merry Christmas!

I made a bunch of these

families and gave them away 

as Christmas gifts last year

I saved the Pickle family

for me

To make these really cute snow people 

you'll need the following supplies:

* White anklet socks 

(different sizes: Adult sock for Pa,

Child sock for Ma,

Baby sock for child)

* Pillow stuffing

* Bag of uncooked beans

* Fancy yarn

* Christmas picks from craft store

(I used the ones with white

and clear berry like balls)

* Glue that adheres to material

and other items like buttons, sequencs, etc.

* Angel dust or other glitter

*Orange sponge

1. Put enough beans in sock to fill up toe area

2. Stuff sock up to but not over the part of the sock

that is turned down with pillow stuffing

3. Turn down the top of the sock (there should be no stuffing in this area)

4. Wrap tiny rubber band around area 1/2 from the top of this turned down area

until it is wrapped tight.

5. You can cut across at the very top of the sock and fluff that area up

to make the top of a hat or you can leave it alone and form a hat with rounded top.

6. Glue on stick on sequences for eyes (I like using light green or blue)

7. Glue on small black sequences or buttons for mouth (use about 6 or 7 for the 

larger socks and 4 or 5 for the smaller sock) 

8. Cut a small triangle shape from the orange sponge and form to make a nose

9. Glue nose on

10. Wrap yarn around the neck and trim to look like a scarf

11. Cut one of the Christmas picks to use as an arm and glue on

12. Do the same with the other arm

(hint: You should be able to poke the pick into the snowman's side

and secure with some glue)

13. Glue on glitter or angel dust glitter

14. Spray or paint on clear craft varnish to protect areas that you used glitter and

other adornments on

Here they are again:

These are a little time consuming

but make a very nice, 

inexpensive gift. 

Everyone I gave a family to

really fell in love with them.

We made a bunch of these about 7 years

ago for a church bazaar, which is 

where I got this idea from.

The church bazaar snowpeople

were not quite as fancy as these.

I merely added the "pick" branches,

glitter and sequences.

By the way the card in the background is my

first Christmas card received

this year (from my newspaper carrier)

Isn't it pretty?